- Main source of water is tube well treated and supplied by Kerala Water Authority (KWA)
- KWA can meet only 50% of drinking water demand
- About 92% of the households face scarcity issues, due to poor quality of the available water. There have been reports of fluoride, chloride, iron contamination in groundwater
- Open wells are highly polluted due to salinity and bacterial contamination
- The situation led to adoption of 18 Reverse Osmosis (RO) plants by the Municipality